[12.03.2012]
CS! berichtet über die US-Einspielergebnisse...[...] After two months of movies far exceeding expectations, we finally got a week with three movies that only did about what was expected and not much more with the biggest disappointment being Disney's John Carter, starring Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Dominic West, Willem Dafoe and Thomas Haden Church, which came into the weekend with mixed reviews and negative buzz due to its reported $250 million budget. It didn't completely bomb as it was able to bring in an estimated $30.6 million domestic in 3,749 theaters, averaging roughly $8,100 per venue. $5 million of that amount was made from 289 IMAX screens, and another $70.6 million internationally in 55 territories, bringing its three-day global total to $101 million. [...]

[11.03.2012]
CS! berichtet über die US-Einspielergebnisse...With a lot of concern going into the weekend about its reported production budget, Disney's John Carter was still able to win Friday with a estimated $9.8 million, though it's likely to lose the weekend to Dr. Seuss' The Lorax, which came in just behind it with $9.6 million and is likely to have a bigger bump on Saturday. We project John Carter could end up somewhere between $27 and 29 million for the weekend but The Lorax will probably end up over $40 million. [...]

[17.02.2012]
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[...] we learned that Stanton and his co-writer Michael Chabon have already been talking and doing some planning and writing for a sequel, which would tentatively be called John Carter: The Gods of Mars, based on Burroughs' second novel.
Mind you, this sequel has not been greenlit by Walt Disney Pictures, and chances are that we won't be hearing anything about whether or not a sequel is a go until well after it opens and Disney sees if it plays as well as everyone hopes both domestically and internationally.
We're currently under an embargo preventing us from sharing our thoughts but trust us when we say that after you see the movie, you'll more than likely want to see a sequel. [...]

[24.05.2011]
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Formerly titled John Carter of Mars, Andrew Stanton's live action debut will now be released under the shorter title, John Carter, Walt Disney Pictures has confirmed.
Starring Taylor Kitsch as the titular lead, the film is based on Edgar Rice Burrough's science fiction series which sees Civil War veteran John Carter transported to the world of Barsoom (the Martian word for their own planet) where he becomes caught up between the different races of warriors who inhabit the red desert.
The title John Carter of Mars is actually that of the final book in the series. The first, which is said to the primary basis for the film, was published under the name A Princess of Mars (and originally serialized as Under the Moons of Mars).
Also starring Lynn Collins, Samantha Morton, Mark Strong, Ciaran Hinds, Dominic West, James Purefoy, Daryl Sabara, Polly Walker, Bryan Cranston, Thomas Hayden Church and Willem Dafoe, John Carter is planned for release on March 9, 2012.

[02.02.2011]
Bei MTV gibt es ein Video-Interview mit dem Regisseur Andrew Stanton...[...] the director told us that while shooting technically wrapped some time ago, the hard work is far from over.
"I'm not in post-production - I'm in digital principal photography now, which goes on for the rest of 2011, so I'm only halfway through the movie," he explained, indicating that there's a fair amount of effects-heavy work that's still to be accomplished.
So, what are some of those effects going to look like? Stanton kept his lips zipped in terms of the aesthetic of "Carter," though he gave an enticing tease: "I didn't try to make it look like anything else. I really tried to make it its own thing. I tried to make a very historically accurate Martian film if that makes sense, so I'll let you decipher that."
"Carter" was an interesting shoot for Stanton for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the fact that this was the "WALL-E" director's first foray into live-action filmmaking.
"When you've made animated movies your whole life, it was pretty exciting to be outside for a day, let alone for months," said Stanton, a fixture at Pixar. "For as cold and as hot and as hard as it was, which I knew it would be, I was up for it and it was a blast. It was the hardest thing I'll ever have done, but man, it was a great adventure. It was like sailing across the ocean, you know, everything that goes with that."
Stanton, who said that "Carter" is still slated for a 3-D release as far as he's aware, also weighed in on the man responsible for bringing the titular hero to life, Taylor Kitsch. "Hopefully he'll be another great face on the big screen, and hopefully he'll be John Carter to people and nobody else if we've done it right," he said of his leading man. [...]

[20.01.2011]
CS! meldet...Walt Disney Pictures made some interesting moves today. The studio [..] moved up Andrew Stanton's John Carter of Mars from June 8, 2012 to that March 9 date. The other movie scheduled for March 9? Ridley Scott's Prometheus.
We'll have to wait and see whether such big projects would go up against each other. [...]

[10.08.2010]
Film Junk meldet...Disney’s upcoming John Carter of Mars adaptation just wrapped filming in Utah after five months of production. [....]
According to Utah Film Commissioner Marshall Moore, "This was an ideal project for Utah because of the unique landscapes we have within our borders. Lockheed Martin also recently used Utah as a double for Mars during an industrial shoot in 2009." Other alien run-ins at these Utah locations include scenes from Galaxy Quest, Evolution, Planet of the Apes (both the original and Tim Burton’s version), and J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek.
Production on Stanton’s film adaptation began in London in early 2010 before moving to Utah in April where production finally wrapped this past week. A lengthy post-production period for visual effects is expected, but it is unclear as to whether that will happen at Disney HQ or Stanton’s Pixar home base. Disney execs have already expressed their belief that the fantasy/sci-fi/adventure series will be their next Pirates of the Caribbean. [...]